Don’t stop loving
Job 19:19 “All my intimate friends abhor me, and those I loved have turned against me.” CJB
Don’t believe with your eyes
Job 19:18 “Even young children despise me if I stand up, they start jeering at me.” CJB
Don’t think you are better
Galatians 5:26 “26 Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying each other.” CJB
Don’t Forget them or stop talking to them
Job 19:14 “my kinsfolk have failed me, and my close friends have forgotten me.” CJB
Don’t mistreat (Treat them with respect)
Job 19:16 “I call my servant, and he doesn’t answer, even if I beg him for a favor!” CJB
Don’t speak words that bring down
Job 19:2-3 “How long will you go on making me angry, crushing me with words? 3 You’ve insulted me ten times already; aren’t you ashamed to treat me so badly? “CJB
Don’t point fingers
Job 22:8-11 “8 As a wealthy man, an owner of land, and as a man of rank, who lives on it, 9 you sent widows away empty-handed and left the arms of orphans crushed 10 “No wonder there are snares all around you, and sudden terror overwhelms you, 11 or darkness, so that you can’t see, and a flood of water that covers you up!” CJB
Don’t argue
Job 16:1-4 “I have heard this stuff so often! Such sorry comforters, all of you! 3 Is there no end to words of wind? What provokes you to answer this way? 4 “If I were in your place, I too could speak as you do — I could string phrases together against you and shake my head at you.” CJB
Don’t misinterpret their speech or put words in their mouth
Job 22:12-14 “Isn’t God in the heights of heaven, looking [down even] on the highest stars? 13 Yet you say, ‘What does God know? Can he see through thick darkness to judge? 14 The clouds veil him off so that he can’t see; he just wanders around in heaven.’” CJB
Don’t Judge
Job 22:23-26 “If you return to Shaddai, you will be built up. If you drive wickedness far from your tents, 24 if you lay your treasure down in the dust and the gold of Ofir among the rocks in the vadis, 25 and let Shaddai be your treasure and your sparkling silver; 26 then Shaddai will be your delight,” CJB
Don’t believe the gossip
Matthew 28:15 “15 The soldiers took the money and did as they were told, and this story has been spread about by Judeans till this very day.” CJB
What was Job attitude toward his friends?
Job 42:10 “10 When Iyov prayed for his friends, Adonai restored his fortunes; Adonai gave Iyov twice as much as he had had before.” CJB
